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the summer when fifteen minutes from now the mean time we also a nobel prize winner in physics how he thinks it all began the universe began during our in-depth interview. i. with me is alex still a pain pill and american astrophysics and a professor at the university of california berkeley he was a member of the team that received the twenty eleven nobel prize for discovering the dark energy that is speeding up in the tension of the entire universe and he believed that it could have sprung into existence without any divine help whatsoever well now we will have a chance to talk about this more thank you very much for joining me here today it is a pleasure to be here thanks so you maintain you do not need divine help to explain how the universe came to be so what is your version will let me start by saying

that i'm going to discuss the universe only from the perspective of a scientist from an intellectual perspective i'm not going to be talking about whether there is a spiritual god or a personal god or a purpose to the universe these are questions that science can't address my own belief is that once you have the laws of physics the universe just keeps going on its own and it could even be that the laws of physics are all that you need in order to get the universe to start from the very beginning the big bang what is then the origin of the laws of physics so that's a great question what is the origin of the laws of physics i don't know that's a question science can't answer what if the laws of physics have always existed and they give rise to a universe our universe and perhaps even multiple universes that's a possibility but it's

a possibility that's sort of outside the realm of science because we don't know of any way to experimentally or observationally test whether that's a correct hypothesis so let's start from the very big in. why did give rise to the universe wind was there a big bang so what gave rise to the universe is an interesting question we don't exactly know the answer to that but we have some ideas for example if there was a preexisting universe then what's called quantum fluctuations little bits of energy coming into existence for a very short time and then usually disappearing well those can occasionally give rise to a universe because if a quantum fluctuation lasts for a long time it can grow to a very large size and that can essentially give rise to a universe and that universe might then have quantum fluctuations that produce other universes so that would be a never ending sequence of universes arising as

a result of just fluctuations in energy in existing universes that's one idea or another possibility is that there was some sort of a hyperspace some sort of a mathematical space in which the laws of physics existed and then universes just sort of pop off like little soap bubbles that a child might blow so there might be all these soap bubbles which are like different universes in a much bigger hyperspace within which the laws of physics operate for unknown reasons and you see it all starts with the laws of physics but i can't tell you where they came from what's very beautiful to me is that a very small number of laws can explain the vast complexity around us with the one exception where we still just don't know and that's life and intelligence ok we just don't know biologists have not of advanced far enough to

understand exactly how life arose and how an intelligence arises but the mechanical universe is amazingly complex yet explainable with a few simple. scientists have just announced the discovery of chutzpah sun what do you think what does it tell us about the origin of the universe the higgs bosun helps complete what's called the standard model of particle physics there is a way we have to try to understand electrons and quarks and neutrinos and other kinds of particles and the higgs bows on was kind of a missing piece of the puzzle which if it were not there would would mean that we'd have to kind of start over but the fact that it appears to have been found completes our picture of the standard model of particle physics that's not to say that we understand everything we don't yet understand how gravity fits in with

particle physics other than the fact that gravity you know pulls particles together and we also don't understand things like dark energy the universe seems to be filled with a dark energy that sticks yeah yeah it's expanding the universe faster and faster i helped discover that and the twenty eleven nobel prize in physics was given to the team leaders last year for that discovery so we don't understand the dark energy there's also something called dark matter it may or may not be some kind of fundamental particles that could be part of the standard model we don't yet understand so the higgs bozon is a very important discovery but it does not solve all questions that remain in physics but it it is but it is a very important discovery in a sense it would have been a more exciting as a scientist if it were not there to me because it would mean that that we're not correct in our view of the universe and the surprises are more fun right

than the expected discoveries sort of like we expected to find that the universe is slowing down just like when i toss a water bottle up it slows down due to gravity. of the earth you know pulling it down and eventually it stops and brings it back down well we expected all the galaxies to put be pulling on each other and to beasts slowing down the expansion of the universe but instead we found that the expansion is speeding up so that that meant that there was something totally brand new that was unanticipated that we don't understand and for a scientist that's more fun than just confirming something that you already thought was there that something that you already thought was true why are there any unanticipated discoveries among scientists i don't think scientists will ever truly understand creation because i don't think we'll know where the laws of physics came

from but given the universe given that universes can arise i think someday meet we may well understand dark energy and dark matter and the other constituents of the universe we only discovered dark energy fourteen years ago the accelerating expansion of the universe so it's no surprise that we don't yet fully understand dark energy dark matter was only conceived a few decades ago so again we don't yet really know what dark matter is but we've not been investigating it for very long i mean in hundreds of years who knows what we will know we might have a full inventory of what's in the universe and how everything behaves so we will know a lot. but we won't quite know why it all happened and why there's something rather than nothing what why are there any mathematical laws of physics rather than just nothing at all i don't know that will ever understand

that scientists are only well aware of four percent of the universe that is we understand pretty well the nature of four percent of the universe the stuff that is made of atoms ninety six percent of the percent of the universe is made out of dark matter and dark energy and although we know that they are present we don't know what their detailed properties are or why they are there or what exactly is going on so in the past couple of decades there's been a true revolution in our understanding of the universe what we used to think of as being everything. is actually only four percent of the pie if you think of a pile with slices four percent consists of the normal stuff of which we are

made but this is fascinating it's fantastic that's right yeah and so you can see that our our view of the universe as scientists changes and that's the strength of science scientists are not afraid to say that they used to be wrong their view of nature was incomplete we love finding new things and coming up with what we think is a more complete description of nature that's the fun of it we don't take anything as an article of faith other than perhaps the existence of the laws of physics but everything else we try to understand from those laws of physics and with time we're coming to a better understanding of the laws themselves for example i said that there are four fundamental forces but in fact in high energy colliders like the large hadron

collider they're smashing particles together so much with such great force they found that the electromagnetic force what holds adams together is very similar to and in fact the same thing as what's called the weak nuclear force which is a very strange force having to do with neutrons they behave the same way when particles have very high energies so in a sense there's only three fundamental forces and there's a suspicion that the electro weak force and the strong nuclear force which is what keeps protons and neutrons together in a nucleus they might become the same force at even higher energies leaving a grand unified force and gravity. and then in the theories of everything string theory is one attempt to do this they are trying to unify this grand unified force with gravity meaning that fundamentally there might be just one concept

one force and these four forces we see in today's low energy world are simply different manifestations of one fundamental concept that's the goal of string theory is to figure out in its most basic way how the universe works.

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a good few goals in the bag for russia indeed belmore on lots of sport here coming up right right now. thanks for joining us this is work today and we have plenty for you ahead including the stories and. we're all for the first gold medals are one of the thirtieth olympiad games following a sensational opening ceremony in london. top of the pile reeling russian football champions in need to maintain their one hundred percent start to the season with victory over struggling. recurring lenka is true turn to the n.b.a. this star signing a two year twenty million dollars deal with the minnesota timberwolves.

but first the wait is finally over the twenty twelve olympic games now in full swing after a spectacular opening ceremony in london richard port fleet watched it all for us. the seven year wait is finally over for london two thousand and twelve olympic games are fishley underway live it all was talking about the beijing olympics four years ago and what an opening ceremony that they were able to put on it that could never be repeated again in history how the london perhaps might exceeded that opening ceremony and all things must go to director danny boyle who put on an absolutely fantastic show showing history and culture of a great britain has given to the world over the last few centuries always a lympics have been really long awaited by the british public it became known seven years ago london had won the fight to hold the limpid games for us to spur biggest sporting event ever have been hosting the country sending the largest sense from

one hundred sixty six world cup but of course all the attention when i returned to the athletes of the two hundred nations competing at these games including a russian delegation the mind of four hundred and it was a scary special moment for maria sharapova or she may be one of the world's most famous women most decorated athletes but obviously she's probably never had an experience as great as face to lead her country out of the lympics or she's had a fantastic year completing a grand slam before grand slams by winning of a french open early it is here but what an event it would be for her if she could claim her limpid gold which would be perhaps one of the great his achievements of her career. china became the first nation to strike gold in london a yeast filling the opposition in the women's ten metre rifle event while our compartment you don prawns metal plenty of glee then for ye the twenty three year old living up to her favorite status by seeing off to thoughts in the invasion gold

medalists check katherina emmons among others paul and sylvia. lived until each shot but lost momentum and had to settle for silver so team china runaway medal table toppers at beijing two thousand and eight getting off to a great start. while there was also delight for russia on day one our sin goal surprise winner in the men's minus sixty kilogram judo event beating japan's hero. with the supreme finish or for any of you to do a start there the first russian olympian to ever reach the podium and not wait chemistry on the first nomination to win it since nineteen eighty. while the other two gold on offer on something that was won by sara and as is all of brazil in the women's minus forty eight kilogram calibrate other goals earned in the first half of the day came from two thousand and eight olympic champion south korean jean jungle in the men's ten meter or a pistol on from kazakhstan cyclist alex been

a career off who blitzed his way to the top of the podium in the men's cycling road race. high hopes for team russia meanwhile in the artistic gymnastics discipline which got underway in london on saturday before the games we caught up with double olympic champion in the discipline. who discovered her memories of sydney to thaw and with us on her expectations for russia this time of us will. was. was going to be you know i don't remember having any emotions jim my first olympics getting ready for it was so tough and serious that it took all of my mental and emotional strength as did the realisation the tight become a limp dick champion and all the emotions came about two weeks after i got back home by that time i'd had time to recover and it dawned on me wow i've won the olympic gold it was my dream come true. goes nuts in the world and that

was a. good word for it was my first olympics my first time at the olympic village the first time i saw famous athletes all around and the ones i don't we seen on t.v. before i remember seeing triple olympic champion alexander carell in walk right past me and i was so impressed like wow and it felt like a festival all the time despite the tight competition schedule but a little bit of a lot of excitement was. was i've heard many times that i was called the bride of sydney but i don't know why maybe it was because i was wearing a white leotard and won my two gold medals and it it was my lucky leotard also it could be because it was my lympics debut and it was successful right away was.

it was just on the coaching is my main occupation since i finished competing i coach kids in the beginners great piece just started doing gymnastics it's a very challenging and interesting job and i hope all become good at it i also judge international competitions i'm very nervous when i have to do this the first time i was a judge was at the european use a limb pick festival and i was almost frantic probably even more than the participants themselves it's not any. easy thing to do you have to learn how to do it and get used to doing it is about supporting the men. in the biz a god with has no right to make any predictions of his actions is a really high the situation for the men is more difficult as they have more competition for the worse that goes have every chance of winning that the result must be very good to make you free samples. and the insurer to come over would definitely find it out for the all around gold and you could be circles of

a. football where the russian premier league has reached its second game week champions and making it two wins from two with victory over they already under pressure dino moscow is a neat sell expert jack off doing brilliantly in the film a box to open the spring just ten minutes in the russian national team striker but it does mean you're twenty twelve campaign behind him with three goals and two i mean league matches not domenico christian to help set up a shot off for the first goal then decided to get on the scoreboard himself the seal the deal in the seventy first minute we got him a softening for us to go in and pull beautifully with the twenty five year old and the rest till the final score not even the dog ites able to hold there's a neat juggernaut this season as you will see in just a moment. title hopeful saskin moscow however suffered a shock defeat on the day the army man going down three one to

a team who finished in the relegation group last season i'm car burmistrov opening proceedings just half a dozen minutes in before the city honda equalized for cisco on thirteen minutes to the alexy red bull show the former russian international having a great. great. run the two second half sendings off for the visitors would then further deepen the zamperla run off deserve a free ride as i. get on the other side from the capital lockable t.v. had better luck on the day the real women at beating cruelly is off shoot until the set pretty alongside sinitta to talk all the. talk of all russian star under a car lanka has decided to return stateside this ask a moscow player agreeing a deal with n.b.a. i fit minnesota the thirty one year old had spent a decade with the youth just before heading to the russian capital in december last year during the n.b.a.

lockout the six month spell with the army men curling could guided them to the your league final on was also in league m.v.p. the small forward now signing on with the timberwolves for two years and a deal worth twenty million dollars minnesota already stumped up curling his russian teammate alexy shade earlier in. to motor sport or lewis hamilton is in prime position to add a third grand prix title on sunday that two thousand on a champion dominating the field to secure his first pole since march at the hungover ring the twenty seven year old in no mood to drive for the front seat switching to the lap times early on the english one claiming the best spot on the grid by four tenths of a second while lotus driver snuck up to time the fending champion sebastian vettel to ensure he will start from second place jenson button to me right then and over a leader on the ground by the top. american football work

t.-bo many starting to gain steam in the big apple last season's most talked about n.f.l. player tim thibeault making his training camp debut for the new york jets completing a few very impressive throws in the process the twenty four year old renowned as much for a strong christian faith as a subpar throwing mechanics making plenty of progress in the lottery department t.-bo completing four out of five passes and team drills with the backup players mark sanchez is entrenched as the starting signal caller but coach rex ryan has plenty of plans for his versatile second string. you can see what he looks like because two hundred fifty pounds go ahead and try to blast him if you want to because he's going to hit you back promise you that and. you know we're going to catch things over there here's a football player but i think when people you have to think twice before you send them all out to rush because this guy can fake he can throw he can run inside run outside do a lot of different things and not his all your sport for whether it's next.

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